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We Out
“The work is going well, but it looks like it might be the end of the world.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, a writer from the before times.
The year is 2062. The United States’ economy has seen better days. There have been no shortage of hard times. Military spending was at an all-time low,. a decent percentage of Americans were facing unemployment and a lack of job security. The various scientific fields that managed to stay afloat had very little to offer this world. It was a position that the country never expected it to be in: anything but the apex predator. Sure, the politicians assured us with their speeches that we were on the rise, but little did we know, things were going to get much worse.― Elizabeth Kolbert, a writer from the before times.
Man had made it this far by its intelligence, but now, it would die by its foolishness and weakness. For the first time in our history, we became the hunted. We became the lesser beings. Nobody knows how it began, as nobody does, but once “it” did, social media went rampant. Everyone called it the end of the world, the exact scenarios visionaries such as George Romero predicted with zombies. But these things, they were far from mindless, slow, and easy to kill.
These things were unlike anything we had ever prepared for, because they were the Dogmen. It caught us at surprise at first, as many prayed nightly that the nukes of our enemies would not decimate our cities, the various viruses we constantly are at war with don’t pick our genetic locks. But humanity was so foolish, as they never saw the true enemy coming. A mutation, a virus spread by bite, and enacted by stress and anger, that changes man into beast. And to think we were so removed from nature, that we were its masters.
Because humanity was no stranger to these hysterical events, as who has not seen a zombie movie, the government was quick to respond. They tried their best to contain the initial infection, quarantining a large area in the Northern part of the United States, home to millions. But the quarantine failed. The efforts to keep back these vicious animals and their infectious bite proved a failure.
But even before that first response, other countries had turned their backs on us. Were their governments so stupid, that they were willing to fall prey as well? Where they so haughty and proud, that these beasts would be welcomed with open arms? In an emergency meeting, the United Nations voiced an imperative to construct a containment protocol on the entire United States. A massive undertaking, costing trillions of dollars. The nations of several countries went nearly bankrupt to construct the biggest wall the world had ever seen, and for what? To preserve itself, knowing that where other theoretical government had failed, had acted with overconfidence, they would not.
Thousands of miles of walls were constructed at the Canadian and Mexican borders. The United States people, so angry, betrayed by the government that was to suppose their safety, were assured that the wall would be removed once the issue was resolved. That’s when the first response collapsed. The containment protocols in the United States broke down, and immediately, all signs pointed to the country’s demise. As the finishing touches were put on the Canadian and Mexican walls, the virus spread, almost as if on cue, to all corners of the nation. Anyone seeking refuge was selfishly turned away, infected or not. The United States was now a wasteland.
As I recount this tale to you all, I can say that up until the very end, we put up a hell of a fight. The military, never once recovered from its prime some fifty years earlier, fought bravely. They tried to get civilians out, but every country refused, or were forced into such. The oceans were heavily patrolled, and anyone caught escaping by air or sea was shot down or sunk. The military also tried to kill these beasts, restore order by any means. Our men and women in service used what resources they had to combat these animals, but to no avail. The only success they had with that was creating vast No-Man’s Lands, stretching sometimes for miles. When they couldn’t fight from the air, since we ran out of fuel, they fought on the ground. When nearly every outpost was practically overrun, they scattered like a fleet in a storm. Even now, the ones that survived fight to this day on their own.
And then there’s us, the last of the humans. We’ve got nowhere to go but anywhere but here. We have nothing to do but survive and not get bitten. Even if we are bitten, we don’t necessarily turn, not unless we get angry, stressed, sometimes even scared will do it. But you can go a long time with it if you’re calm, if you can hold on to control. That’s what they say anyways.
But then again, this isn’t new to us. Fourteen years, I think, not that time means anything. After all these years, things haven’t gotten any easier. We’ve seen some things that were not there before. The beasts are getting smarter, finding ways to trick us. There’s even a few that have risen above their programming, learning to speak, to change back, but all that’s left in the end is a shell, a husk of what once was a simple human being. Signing off, Huxley Brown, a citizen of Versipolis.
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This is an apocalyptic roleplay that will centralize around a single group surviving in the United States in the wake of “dogmen”. Dogmen, as is their adopted name, are lycanthropic in appearance, and retain very little human qualities. They do not speak like humans, and have base animal instincts. However, they have enhanced senses, speed, and strength. However, there are a select few that can rise above this and have the ability to shift. However, by no means are they at all friendly with humans. We are looking for members who enjoy writing longer responses (3+ paragraphs), like to think out of the box, and absolutely can show off their talents as a writer and a creator. You can apply as either a survivor, or as one of these more sentient wolves. However, we are going to be extremely selective on the wolf aspect, as we do not want too many. We (
Malice Queen
and
JokerValentine
) will post more information as it becomes available.If you have any questions or suggestions, shoot us a message!
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Most likely a person with medical background! ^^
